Do You Know There Is Also A Heat Wave Breaking Records Right Now?

While wrapped up in multiple layers of warm clothing and seeing the temperature drop below freezing point, one tends to forget that on the other side of the world, it’s not just summer, it’s a sweltering hot; record breaking summer.

While wrapped up in multiple layers of warm clothing and seeing the temperature drop below freezing point, one tends to forget that on the other side of the world, it’s not just summer, it’s a sweltering hot; record breaking summer.

Tens of thousands of dead bats fell out of the sky in Australia; struck down by the heat wave.

If the image above defies belief, watch this video:

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), an estimated 100,000 bats could have died from heat exhaustion in record temperatures in southern Queensland.

The organization’s spokesman Michael Beatty says, “The heat wave was basically a catastrophe for all the bat colonies in south-east Queensland,” he said.

“That's obviously going to have a pretty disturbing impact on those colonies and those colonies are vital to our ecosystem.”

It’s not just the bats that are suffering; there have been reports of kangaroos collapsing and other life being affected in the Outback and temperatures in some regions reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday.